Google launches News Lab to 'empower' journalists

New Delhi: US technology giant Google Inc launched its News Lab in a new effort to empower innovation at the intersection of technology and media and to collaborate with journalists and entrepreneurs to help build the future of media.

As per the search engine giant, the News Lab gives tools to journalists around the world (and that newsrooms know how to use them); by getting helpful Google data sets in the hands of journalists everywhere; and through programs designed to build on some of the biggest opportunities that exist in the media industry today.

From Maps to YouTube to Fusion Tables to Earth to Search, Google offer many tools that newsrooms can use in their reporting and storytelling. Now, journalists around the world can access tutorials on these products created specifically for newsrooms, at g.co/newslab.

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“There’s a revolution in data journalism happening in newsrooms today, as more data sets and more tools for analysis are allowing journalists to create insights that were never before possible. To help journalists use our data to offer a unique window to the world, last week we announced an update to our Google Trends platform,” Steve Grove, Director, News Lab, said in a blog post .

“The new Google Trends provides journalists with deeper, broader, and real-time data, and incorporates feedback we collected from newsrooms and data journalists around the world. We’re also helping newsrooms around the world tell stories using data, with a daily feed of curated Google Trends based on the headlines of the day, and through partnerships with newsrooms on specific data experiments,” he said.